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First Cataract Operation through Suction
by Meam Wye
Ammar bin Ali Al-Mawsili, the 10th century Iraqi Opthomologist, was the first to remove cataracts through suction - a technique still used today.
Al-Mawsili invented Hypodermic needle for this purpose and performed successful cataract operation. He wrote the following regarding the operation:"Then I constructed the hollow needle, but I did not operate with it on anybody at all, before I came to Tiberias. There came a man for an operation who told me: Do as you like with me, only I cannot lie on my back. Then I operated on him with the hollow needle and extracted the cataract; and he saw immediately and did not need to lie, but slept as he liked. Only I bandaged his eye for seven days. With this needle nobody preceded me. I have done many operations with it in Egypt."
Al-Mawsili's described forty-eight eye diseases in his book ' Book of Choices in the Treatment of Eye Diseases'. He was also the first to state that cataracts were due to the opacity of the lens of the eye.
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